Should you even think about renting it for a laugh? To quote Dick Marcinko: "F*ck no." [Feb 2010, p.107]

It's not as if previous game adaptations have set the bar high, but this manages to fall below even those minimal standards. [Jan 2010, p.116]

It's just a shame that ploughing through the rest of the content is essentially gaming busywork. [Mar 2010, p.117]

Story mode suffers from some weird plot touches. [Jan 2010, p.108]

No innovation, no fun, no thanks. [May 2010, p.113]

Pinball is awesome - this is just a massively unsatisfying version of it. [Dec 2009, p.18]

Cleverly laid out levels. [Dec 2009, p.18]

Hours of carving out tiny chunks of land and cowering in corners. [Dec 2009, p.18]

There's little here to warrant dusting off your spacesuit. [Feb 2010, p.111]

Hell, Speedwalking Arcade would have more longevity than this. [Feb 2010, p.114]

Delightful. [May 2010, p.110]

If PSP Minis were TV, Echoes would be the weird arty cartoon that ran for about five minutes at 3am. [Jan 2010, p.115]

It's exactly as fun as it sounds. [Feb 2010, p.105]

At least the fact that the alien looks like a sad, green little poop makes it visually amusing. [Feb 2010, p.105]

[Games are] about delivering a world that you want to invest your time in, full of characters you can have an emotional connection with, and Assassin's Creed II does that almost perfectly. [Dec 2009, p.102]

Major bail. [Jan 2010, p.108]

It's damn complicated. [Christmas 2009, p.111]

The warmth in the world has survived the scaling down. [Jan 2010, p.106]

A brilliant must-buy. [Jan 2010, p.104]

Feels solid and assured. [Christmas 2009, p.119]

Can be as thrilling as the season it's based on. [Christmas 2009, p.113]

It just isn't very fun. [Mar 2010, p.115]

It's equally confusing and brilliant. [Feb 2010, p.106]

Look, I didn't say they were fun objectives. [Feb 2010, p.104]

I'd say that you should try playing this only to laugh at its total, across-the-board incompetence, but it'd be like recommending you throw eight quid into the bin and then roll around naked and giggling in a pile of your own faeces. Unrivaled indeed. [Sept 2010, p.115]

It's still the only game guaranteed to get everyone in the family playing, swearing, calling you a cheat and loving every dangerously competitive minute. [Feb 2010, p.115]

The quality hits you like a tank - the visuals, the set-pieces, the detail. [Christmas 2009, p.100]

Strong, but just behind FIFA. [Christmas 2009, p.117]